APPENDIX 1 The Structure of Intransitive Sentences in Sidney Sheldon’s If Tomorrow Comes No

  APPENDIX 1 The Structure of Intransitive Sentences in Sidney Sheldon’s If Tomorrow Comes

No Sentences S - P S–P-Locative S-P-Adjunct S-P-Complement

Complement of the subject

   Sheldon, (1986:7) 1 The head cashier joked. S P

   2 A teller complained. Sheldon, (1986:7)

  S P

   3 I am soaked. Sheldon, (1986:7)

  S P

   4 Charles was saying . Sheldon, (1986:9)

  S P

   5 Budge was beaming. Sheldon, (1986:208)

  S P

   6 Mr. Stanhope murmured. Sheldon, (1986:14)

  S P  blinked. Sheldon, (1986:23)

  7 Otto Schmidt

  S P  smiled lazily. Sheldon, (1986:306)

  8 He

  S P  raining. Sheldon, (1986:4)

  9 It’s

  S P  was gone. Sheldon, (1986:55)

  10 The matron

  S P

  11 The banking day

   had begun. Sheldon, (1986:12)

  S P

   12 A pedestrian was approaching. Sheldon, (1986:27)

  S P

   13 Louise Hollander’s mouth tightened. Sheldon, (1986:197)

  S P

   14 The connection was broken. Sheldon, (1986:127)

  S P

   15 had continued through dinner at the old Their discussion

  S P Lc

  Bookbinder’s restaurant . Sheldon, (1986:9)

   16 Ernestine Little chap stood there. Sheldon, (1986:86)

  S P Lc  Sheldon, (1986:12) 17 He learned across his desk.

  S P Lc  sat in the tiny kitchen of her apartment. Sheldon, (1986:18)

  18 She

  S P Lc  lay on her bunk. Sheldon, (1986:56)

  19 Tracy

  S P Lc  was nearby. Sheldon, (1986:98)

  20 The huge artificial lake

  S P Lc  stepped out of the lobby of her apartment.

  21 Tracy Whitney

  S P Lc Sheldon, (1986:6)

   moved against in the wall. (Sheldon, 1986:103)

  22 Tracy

  S P Lc  walked into the large pleasant kitchen. Sheldon, (1986:94)

  23 Tracy

  S P Lc

   Sheldon, (1986:10) 24 She jogged along the WestRiverDrive. S P Lc

   25 They moved into the library. Sheldon, (1986:17)

  S P Lc

   

   paused in front of the statue of the thinker. Sheldon, (1986:10)

  26 Tracy

  S P A  shopped at Head House Square. Sheldon, (1986:10)

  27 They

  S P A  stood in the doorway. Sheldon, (1986:22)

  28 Otto Schmidt

  S P A  began at 6:00. A.M. Sheldon, (1986:77)

  29 Work

  S P A  looked up from his newspaper.

  30 Warden Branningan

  S P A Sheldon, (1986:101)

   ’s snowing hard here. Sheldon, (1986:4)

  31 It

  S P A  glanced up at the clock on the wall. Sheldon, (1986:11)

  32 The guard

  S P A

  33 Tracy

   looked around at the lovely old oak-paneled room.

  S P A Sheldon, (1986:17)

   had grown up in that house. Sheldon, (1986:22)

  34 Tracy

  S P A  came out a few moments later. Sheldon, (1986:156)

  35 She

  S P A  worked in a carnival. Sheldon, (1986:198)

  36 He

  S P A

  37 Desmond

   was the image of an important executive.

  S P Cs Sheldon, (1986:12)

   

   was in her mid-twenties. Sheldon, (1986:6)

  38 She

  S P Cs  was a Victorian house located in the Garden

  39 The Whitney residence

  S P Cs

  District in the residential section . Sheldon, (1986:13)

   was mafia. (Sheldon, 1986: 13)

  40 Joe Romano

  S P Cs  ‘re one of our most valuable employees. Sheldon, (1986:12)

  41 You

  S P Cs  was one of the most important investment houses

  42 Stanhope and Sons

  S P Cs . Sheldon, (1986:13)

   in the financial community  was the most exciting day of her life.

  43 Her tenth birthday

  S P Cs Sheldon, (1986:55)

   was an event

  44 The weekly Friday-night poker at Perry pope’s house

  S P

  To Which all players eagerly looked forward . Sheldon, (1986:139)

  Cs

   45 The prison grapevine was incredible. (Sheldon, 1986:79)

  S P Cs

   46 was a king who ran is fiefdom with bribes, guns, Anthony Orsatty and black mail . Sheldon, (1986:128)

   47 The carnies became Jeff’s friend. Sheldon, (1986:190)

  S P Cs

   48 She had her mother thinness and deepset, intelligent hazel eyes. S P Cs Sheldon, (1986:95)

  Appendix II: The Kind of Verb in Intransitive Sentences in Sidney Sheldon’s If Tomorrow Comes.

  Dynamic Stative Verb Verbs Verbs of Location Telic Event Process Punctual Durative Verb of Verb Locational of being al verb dynam dynamic dynamic dynamic dynamic becoming of verb

  No Intransitive Sentences behavi ic verb verb verb verb verb being or

   1 The head cashier joked. (Sheldon, 1986:7) 2 A teller complained.  (Sheldon, 1986:7)

  3 I am soaked. (Sheldon,  1986:7)

  4 Charles was saying.

   (1986:9)

  5 Budge was beaming.

   (Sheldon, 1986:208)

  6 Mr. Stanhope murmured.

   (Sheldon, 1986:14) 7 Otto Schmidt blinked.  (Sheldon, 1986:23)

  8 He smiled lazily. (Sheldon,  1986:306) 9 (Sheldon, it’s raining.

   1986:4:

  10 The matron was gone.

   (Sheldon, 1986:55)

  11 The banking day had  begun. (Sheldon,1986:12)

  12 A pedestrian was

   approaching. (Sheldon, 1986:27)

  13 Louise Hollander’s mouth  (Sheldon, tightened. 1986:197)

  14 The connection was  broken. (Sheldon, 1986:127)

  15 Their discussion had

   continued through dinner at the old Bookbinder’s restaurant. (Sheldon, 1986:9)

  16 Ernestine Little chap stood  (Sheldon,1986:86) there.

  17 He learned across his desk.

   (Sheldon, 1986:12)

  18 She sat in the tiny kitchen  of her apartment. (Sheldon, 1986:18)

  19 Tracy lay on her bunk.

   (Sheldon, 1986:56)

  20 The huge artificial lake  was nearby. (Sheldon, 1986:98)

  21 Tracy Whitney stepped out

   of the lobby of her apartment. (Sheldon,

  1986:6)

  22 Tracy moved against the

   (Sheldon, 1986:103) wall.

  23 Walked into the large  (Sheldon, pleasant kitchen. 1986:94)

  24 She jogged along the  Westriverdrive. (Sheldon, 1986:10)

  25 They moved into the  (Sheldon, 1986:17) library.

  26 Tracy paused in front of  the statue of the thinker.

  (Sheldon, 1986:10)

  27 They shopped at head  (Sheldon, house Square. 1986:10)

  28 Otto Schmidt stood in the  doorway. (Sheldon, 1986:22)

  29 Work began at 6:00  (Sheldon, 1986:77)

  30 WardenBranningan looked  up from his newspaper.

  (Sheldon, 1986:101) 31 It’s snowing hard here.

   (Sheldon, 1986:4)

  32 The quard glanced up at

   the clock on the wall.

  (Sheldon, 1986:11)

  33 Tracy looked around at the

   lovely old oak-paneled room. (Sheldon, 1986:17)

  34 Tracy had grown up in  that house. (Sheldon, 1986:22)

  35 She came out a few  (Sheldon, moments later. 1986:156)

  36 He worked in a carnival.

   (Sheldon, 1986:198)

  37 Desmond was the image

   ofanimportant executive.

  (Sheldon, 1986:12)

  38 She was in her mid-  twenties. (Sheldon, 1986:6)

  39 The Whitney residence was  a Victorian house located in the Garden District in the residential section.

  (Sheldon, 1986:13) 40 Joe Romano was mafia.

   (Sheldon, 1986:91)

  41 You’re one of our most

   valuable employees.

  (Sheldon, 1986:12)

  42 Stanhope and Sons was  one of the most important investment houses in the financial community.

  (Sheldon, 1986:13)

  43 Her tenth birthday was the  most exiting day of her life.

  (Sheldon, 1986:55)

  44 The weekly Friday-night  poker at Perry Pope’s house was an event to which all the players eagerly looked forward.

  (Sheldon, 1986:139)

  45 The prison grapevine was  (Sheldon, incredible. 1986:79)

  46 Antohony Orsatty was a  king who ran his fiefdom with bribes, guns. And

  (Sheldon, black mail. 1986:128)

  47 The carnies became Jeff’s

   (Sheldon, friend. 1986:190)

  48 She had her mother  thinness and deep set, intelligent hazel eyes. (Sheldon, 1986:95)

  

APPENDIX III

SUMMARY OF SIDNEY SHELDON’S IF TOMORROW COMES

  Tracy Whitney, the protagonist of the story, is a young, beautiful, and intelligent woman working as a computer operator for a bank in Philadelphia. The story begins with a phone conversation between Tracy and her mother Doris Whitney, who lives in New Orleans and takes care of the business set up by her deceased husband. Tracy tells her mother about her planned marriage with a businessman, Charles Stanhope III. Doris commits suicide after the conversation and Tracy is notified about it by a Lieutenant of the New Orleans police department.

  Upon arriving at New Orleans, Tracy becomes aware of the circumstances that led to her mother’s suicide. She learns that Joe Romano, the main assistant of New Orleans mafia leader Anthony Orsatti, had framed her mother into a legal case relating to fraud – Doris didn’t have the money to fight the case and decided to commit suicide.

  Tracy is filled with hatred for Romano, and naively decides to bring her mother’s name in the clear by making Romano confess his misdeed. She purchases a house. She is assigned an attorney named Perry Pope who, to her ignorance, works for the mafia. Pope convinces her to plead guilty in court before Judge Lawrence (who is also secretly a mafia man) and promises that she’ll be given only a three- month prison sentence. She follows his advice, and realizes in court that it was all a setup by Orsatti and Romano to destroy her- Lawrence sentence her to 15 years of incarceration in Southern Louisiana Penitentiary for Women. Charles doesn’t give her a chance to let her explain her version of the incident, and leaves her at her fate with his unborn child in her womb. Tracy enters a life of hardship, sexual harassment and violence at the penitentiary and vows revenge against all those who harmed her and her mother. The title of the novel itself is from a melodramatic quote in the novel, where Tracy vows to take her revenge tomorrow, if tomorrow comes:

  “She was going to make them pay….Tomorrow, she thought if tomorrow comes” Eventually, she becomes the nanny for the prison warden’s young daughter, a job that leads to her release from jail. After coming out, she cunningly sets up distrust property. Thus begins her life as one of the world’s cleverest criminals. Tracy pursues some brilliant con schemes filled with humor and ingenuity all over Europe

• – such as stealing jewelry from an actress on the Orient Express, valuable painting from a museum, reselling a gem to a jeweler for much higher than its worth, etc. The Interpol issues alerts all over Europe in search of – as they perceive it- a gang of con- women. Only Daniel Cooper, a plain-looking sociopath and insurance investigator, seems capable of matching Tracy’s brilliance, although he never manages to catcher red-handed. In the end, after having collected enough money to live a luxurious life, Tracy and Jeff plan to marry and live together in Brazil as law-abiding citizens.